Overview

The Dota 2 Asia Championships, also known as DAC 2015[1] and as The Oriental[2], is a tournament organized by Perfect World and MarsTV.[3] With some similarities to The Internationals such as, the quality of recent results of the teams directly invited and of those invited to the qualifiers, the format of the tournament, the release of a compendium, the size of the total prize pool reached by the sale of compendiums together with the initial prize pool, and with the difference of the location of the LAN finals being in Shanghai, China[4], a city in the East, as opposed to Seattle, Washington, USA or Cologne, Germany, cities in the West, the DAC 2015 has been referred to as The International of the East.[5]

Format

Qualifiers

America

4 Team Double Elimination Bracket with upper bracket advantage

Online: 01.05-01.06

Top Team Qualifies for Finals

Europe

8 Team Double Elimination Bracket with upper bracket advantage

Online: 01.08-01.11

Top Team Qualifies for Finals

Second and third placed teams qualify for wildcard

Asia

16 Teams, Bo2 Round Robin

Online: 01.11 - 01.16

Top 4 Teams qualify for Finals; fifth and sixth play in wildcard matches.

Wildcard

Top two finishers in DSPL (Chinese Amateur League) play against fifth and sixth of Asia qualifiers and second and third of Europe qualifiers for two qualification berths for Finals.

As of February 5th, 2015, the Dota 2 Asia Championships had surpassed The International 3 in terms of its prize pool, becoming the second largest tournament prize pool in Dota 2 history, behind only The International 4.[6][7]

It also had the second largest amount of money funded by the community through the sale of in-game items, behind The International 4.[6][8]